Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg station

Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg (Catalan: La Tor de Querol-Enveig) or Latour-de-Carol is a railway station in Enveitg and Latour-de-Carol, Occitanie, France. It is the current terminus of three lines.

Latour-de-Carol-Enveitg
Latour-de-Carol railway station
General information
Location	Enveitg, Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie, France
Coordinates	42°27′31″N 1°54′22″E
Line(s)	Portet-Saint-Simon–Puigcerdà railway Ligne de Cerdagne Montcada i Reixac–Puigcerdà
Platforms	4
Tracks	11
Other information
Station code	87611483
Services Preceding station SNCF Following station Porté-Puymorens towards Paris-Austerlitz Intercités (night) Terminus Preceding station TER Occitanie Following station Porté-Puymorens towards Toulouse 11 Terminus Terminus 32 Béna Fanès towards Villefranche–Vernet-les-Bains Preceding station Rodalies de Catalunya Following station Puigcerdà towards L'Hospitalet de Llobregat R3 Terminus

France's SNCF operates TER (local) services on the Portet-Saint-Simon–Puigcerdà railway (from Toulouse-Matabiau) and on the Ligne de Cerdagne known as Train Jaune (from Villefranche-de-Conflent, with connections to Perpignan). Spain's Renfe Operadora runs Rodalies de Catalunya trains from L'Hospitalet de Llobregat on the Barcelona commuter rail line R3. SNCF also runs Intercités de Nuit night trains to Paris.

Latour-de-Carol is one of the few stations in the world with three different gauges. Others include Montreux railway station, Hendaye station and Jenbach railway station, Madrid Atocha station(when the metro is included), Powell Street and Embarcadero stations in San Francisco, and several stations in Tokyo, mostly on the Toei Shinjuku Line. The line to Toulouse-Matabiau is 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge; the line to Barcelona is 1,668 mm (5 ft 5+21⁄32 in) Iberian gauge; and the Cerdagne line to Villefranche-de-Conflent is 1,000 mm (3 ft 3+3⁄8 in) metre gauge. The three lines each have a different voltage supply: 1500 V DC (overhead France), 3000 V DC (overhead Spain), and 850 V DC (3rd Rail, Ligne de Cerdagne), respectively.

Platform 1 also features the longest covered platform in France.

Services from Latour-de-Carol are to Toulouse, Barcelona and Villefranche-de-Conflent where one can change for Perpignan.

Train services

The following services currently call at Latour-de-Carol:

Preceding station	SNCF			Following station
Porté-Puymorens towards Paris-Austerlitz		Intercités (night)		Terminus
Preceding station	TER Occitanie			Following station
Porté-Puymorens towards Toulouse		11		Terminus
Terminus		32		Béna Fanès towards Villefranche–Vernet-les-Bains
Preceding station	Rodalies de Catalunya			Following station
Puigcerdà towards L'Hospitalet de Llobregat		R3		Terminus

Gallery

• 
  The station showing the 3 different gauges
• 
  A Z 100 unit for the Cerdagne line at Latour-de-Carol
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  The station in the foreground
• 
  A B81500 at Latour-de-Carol on the service to Toulouse

External links

• Spanish Railways website (in Spanish)
• Photos